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MEXICO CITY - Authorities say a nine-year-old girl has given birth in western Mexico and they are looking for the purported father who make the girl pregnant, a 17-year-old.
Jalisco state police spokesman Lino Gonzalez says the baby girl was born last week at a hospital in the city of Guadalajara. He says the girl and her newborn baby are doing well.

Gonzalez said Wednesday that the girl's family alerted authorities after she gave birth and the alleged father has not been seen since in the neighbourhood they both live in.
He says that if the teenager's paternity is proven he could face child sex abuse or rape charges.
Gonzalez says the girl told authorities the teenager was her boyfriend.
“Due to her young age,
we don’t know if she is being entirely truthful,” Lino Ginzalez Corona,
spokesperson at Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office, said in a press
conference, ABC reports.
The new mother is one of 11 children,
according to ABC, and her parents were unable to watch her while they
worked. Corona added that authorities are “still open to the possibility
of rape or child sex abuse.”
There have been only a handful of recent reported births among children this young, including a 10-year-old Colombian girl who gave birth last year, and a 9-year-old Chinese girl who gave birth to a healthy baby boy in 2010.